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Re: What TV Show Did You Last Watch

I really want to like The Killing, but I had to stop watching in series 1. The red herrings just got obnoxious. Way too many dumb cliffhangers for the sake of getting you to watch the next week, not for actually advancing the case/plot. And some of the characters were just horrible (in terms of substance, not character, though some fit both). Pretty much every member of Rosie's family was just a grating on-screen presence. Linden has one expression: constipation. Holder talks like Edgerrin James, so I understand roughly 1/3 of what he says.

That said, I gave it under two episodes into season 2 before quitting. Red herrings just got to be too dumb.

Thankfully, this new season stars Peter Saarsgard, who is awesome in everything. So I'm giving it a watch, and hoping having Rosie's family out of the picture will ease my harshness on the characters -- though ghetto lesbian girl isn't helping that much at the moment.

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She should still have two Dothraki blooriders along with most of the people she kept with her trudging through the Red Waste (aka season 2). That said, they made a point during that great bath scene in the last ep with thisonesnameisMissandeiyourgrace that D-Storm is losing touch with her Sun and Stars and the Dothraki culture in general.

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Grace just called and asked me what the big hubbub was, and knowing she'd never watch the show, I told her, and got choked up doing it. Even though I haven't read the third book yet, I knew what was coming, but it still floored me. I have a friend who hasn't watched yet and doesn't know what's coming, and I'm debating whether to warn him.

Re: What TV Show Did You Last Watch

I really want to like The Killing, but I had to stop watching in series 1. The red herrings just got obnoxious. Way too many dumb cliffhangers for the sake of getting you to watch the next week, not for actually advancing the case/plot. And some of the characters were just horrible (in terms of substance, not character, though some fit both). Pretty much every member of Rosie's family was just a grating on-screen presence. Linden has one expression: constipation. Holder talks like Edgerrin James, so I understand roughly 1/3 of what he says.

That said, I gave it under two episodes into season 2 before quitting. Red herrings just got to be too dumb.

Thankfully, this new season stars Peter Saarsgard, who is awesome in everything. So I'm giving it a watch, and hoping having Rosie's family out of the picture will ease my harshness on the characters -- though ghetto lesbian girl isn't helping that much at the moment.

While agree with a lot of what you say I still enjoy the show immensely. Like you said, I don't really think they made a wise casting choice with Holder, but I love the different format of the show. The fact that they would prolong a murder mystery like a mini series. Should have resolved it in one season though and I think they will learn their lesson from that in season 3.

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Grace just called and asked me what the big hubbub was, and knowing she'd never watch the show, I told her, and got choked up doing it. Even though I haven't read the third book yet, I knew what was coming, but it still floored me. I have a friend who hasn't watched yet and doesn't know what's coming, and I'm debating whether to warn him.

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I really, really enjoyed Orphan Black. All ten episodes of the first season are on Amazon (probably iTunes too). The lead actress is phenomenal, the rest of the cast is strong too, they handle the mystery well without over or underplaying their hands, and there is a lot of good thematic material to go with the story. Not sure there's a better British show on other than Peep Show. Can't wait for more Sarah, Allison (that crazy, alcoholic broad), and Kasima.

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Because it's a good show. I don't know why but the rain/gloominess of the Seattle area is a perfect backdrop for this kind of show.

I like the atmosphere of it, the tone, the look, the background music. I like that they take their time on the characters. But I could see if you are someone who watched a lot of network tv and you like your crimes solved within 43 minutes that it could be frustrating.

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Knowing what that term means, I wish you wouldn't do that. It tells me enough to kind of figure out what's coming.

For all intents and purposes I am just as in the dark as you are now, I had only read up to the red wedding in the books. So I honestly have no idea, but I am just guessing based on everything we know so far. That phrase, the leech scene, etc.

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Yeah it's such a painfully well written and now acted moment. The shock is only part of what gets you. It's the anguish too now. I don't know if anyone has ever seen George R.R. Martin's thoughts on this particular scene but he has long said it was the most painful thing he's ever written. Wrote the enitrety of book 3 before returning and writing that scene. When he was asked about what he would do when the episode came out, he said he guessed he would have to find a country that didn't have a TV as he did not wish to see it/experience it again.

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I like the atmosphere of it, the tone, the look, the background music. I like that they take their time on the characters. But I could see if you are someone who watched a lot of network tv and you like your crimes solved within 43 minutes that it could be frustrating.

That's what I don't like about all the blah, cookie cutter network crime shows. TV is getting as bad as movies in copying/re-hashing everything else.

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I like the atmosphere of it, the tone, the look, the background music. I like that they take their time on the characters. But I could see if you are someone who watched a lot of network tv and you like your crimes solved within 43 minutes that it could be frustrating.

Related: Dexter is now as bad as any network crime TV.

I don't dislike The Killing because of a long arc. I pretty much only like series with season or seasons-long arcs. I dislike it because it's cheaply built on red herrings, though I anticipate this season may be a bit different (thankfully).

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I really, really enjoyed Orphan Black. All ten episodes of the first season are on Amazon (probably iTunes too). The lead actress is phenomenal, the rest of the cast is strong too, they handle the mystery well without over or underplaying their hands, and there is a lot of good thematic material to go with the story. Not sure there's a better British show on other than Peep Show. Can't wait for more Sarah, Allison (that crazy, alcoholic broad), and Kasima.

Other great, still-airing British series:

Sherlock (returning 2014, I believe)

Luther (returning late 2013, I believe)

Black Mirror (essentially British Outer Limits, can be hit-or-miss but I really enjoyed Series 1 ... not sure when this returns)

Black Mirror (essentially British Outer Limits, can be hit-or-miss but I really enjoyed Series 1 ... not sure when this returns)

(I'm not a fan of Downton Abbey, but I guess that would go here.)

All good shows, though I don't think they're as consistent as OB. Sherlock and BM kind of suffer from being just 3 TV movies a year, so the middle one always feels like filler wrapped around a couple of really smart concepts. Brooker is a brilliant dude though. Luther is pretty much a standard shock procedural, held up by Stringer Bell and Ruth Wilson. Downton is the British Walking Dead. Misfits without Nathan...

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For all intents and purposes I am just as in the dark as you are now, I had only read up to the red wedding in the books. So I honestly have no idea, but I am just guessing based on everything we know so far. That phrase, the leech scene, etc.